All, I found this dime tonight in change, and I’m almost certain it’s an error coin. DD on both obverse and reverse of this coin. Now I’m sure you’re going to tell me it’s worthless dbling but I think otherwise. Shed some knowledge plz and give me some good news.
Learn all about how the different kinds of doubling happen on coins on https://doubleddie.com/. YouTube also has videos on how doubling happens. A good source is: CoinHelpu.
that's a good example of crisp details in the middle, and all mushy all around. too early for me to think .. @paddyman98
I’m absolutely going to tell you it’s worthless doubling because that’s what it is. No good news for you today Go to the doubleddie.com site referenced earlier and notice how true doubling occurs. The hub shifts slightly during one of the pressings into the working die (The mint now uses a single press process, but that’s a different story). This would cause the letters/numbers etc, to be a little wider, i.e, you would have the normal thickness, plus a little extra from the shift. Now look at your coin. The “doubled” letters are all thinner. If you understand the die making process, you can easily see that it can’t be a doubled die. Doubling where the devices are thinner than normal is a giveaway that you have worthless doubling. Another thing to note is the weakness of the periphery and radial flow lines. That tells you the die struck a lot of coins and is worn out. And worn dies have a tendency to display die deterioration doubling. Remember, there are a whole lot of MD and DDD coins out there, but very few true doubled dies. Learning the die making process will help keep you from wasting time on the obvious worthless coins. Hope this helps
it looks like a winner to some people, me included. yep, the same thing happened to me more than once. you see worthless doubling appears a lot. I went to the bank one time and got $25 in pennies, you see I was on a mission to find gold. the first roll I searched I got 3 doubled died pennies. after searching the entire box I had 31. so on the way to a coin shop to verify and to accept offers on my treasure I was given the bad news. the shop owner was nice enough to show me the difference. man I was picking out what color my new truck was gonna be. that was a sad day. your not alone @David Handlin
@David Handlin Here's a photo of what others have been telling you about Die Deterioration Doubling: Photo is from Error-ref.com It's almost exactly what your coin looks like.
